Retribution_ The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings [395]
900. “criminal carelessness” Russian Arkhiv 18, op. cit., no. 338, Political Report from the Chief of Political Department of the 2nd Red Banner Army to the Chief of Political Department of 2nd Far Eastern Front on the Brutal Murder by a Japanese Group of Medical Personnel of 70th Rifle Regiment of 3rd Rifle Division. Source: TsAMO RF. F.304 Op. 7007 D.160 L.318, 318b, 319.
901. “As soon as our anti-tank guns” Quoted Glantz, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 121.
902. “I shall die here” JM154 272–23, quoted ibid., p. 124.
903. “The defending troops in the Japanese fortified regions” ibid., p. 255.
904. “It was so hot” ibid., p. 352.
905. “When we entered the city of Vanemiao” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 330.
906. “Most of us knew that Stalin” AI Luo Dingwen.
907. “This was not justice” AI Xu Guiming.
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908. “Undoubtedly the biggest question” West Point Archive, Lincoln Papers.
909. “Ignore it all” AI Maj. Shigeru Funaki.
910. “and this secondary revulsion” Nicholas, op. cit., p. 598.
911. “pour them all on in a reasonably short time” Quoted Hasegawa, op. cit., p. 235.
912. “The days of negotiation” Nicholas, op. cit., p. 603, 18.8.45.
913. “For Japan’s civilian politicians” AI Hando.
914. “Robert Newman suggests” Newman, op. cit., passim.
915. “Considering the suicidal tactics” USNA RG207 Box 404, Entry 55.
916. “Despite the courage of every unit” Ugaki diary, op. cit., p. 665.
917. “The war ended on August 15” Onoda, op. cit., p. 75.
918. “a reprieve from” AI Kikuchi.
919. “The Allies will destroy” Mitsuo Abe, Staff Officer, Fuji Shobo 1953.
920. “The men all cried” AI Hashimoto, loc. cit.
921. “Now we’re going to live in a new world” AI Sekine.
922. “Surely we have lost the war” AI Watanuki.
923. “I thought the Americans” AI Iki.
924. “I was sure there would be” AI Hijikata.
925. “All the way back to general staff headquarters” AI Takahashi.
926. “Didn’t you hear?” AI Miyashita.
927. “‘What’s up?’” he demanded” AI Ando.
928. “Oh, war finish!” Somerville, op. cit., p. 292.
929. “What reaction? Absolutely nil” IWM Thompson Papers 87/58/1.
930. “The Japs won’t like that” Somerville, op. cit., p. 293.
931. “A repatriation officer” George Cooper, Never Forget, Never Forgive, Navigator Press 1995, p. 167.
932. “It seemed like talking to men from Mars” IWM Pearson MS 99/3/1.
933. “I felt a lump” Sunday Pictorial 7.10.45.
934. “the wicked Americanos had dropped” IWM AR Evans Papers 82/24/1.
935. “Listen, you goddamned son of a bitch” Glusman, op. cit., pp. 437–79.
936. “My God, Stuart, you look fat” AI Cunningham.
937. “Mei kuo ting hao” White and Jacoby, op. cit., p. 277.
938. “because this meant” AI Luo Dingwen.
939. “who else is alive?” AI Yan Qizhi.
940. “and even if we had been, I doubt” AI Wu Yinyan.
941. “We had to tell them” AI Najiro.
942. “The samurais were” Belyaev, op. cit., pp. 295–97.
943. “I was nineteen” AI Nakamura.
944. “We felt nothing” AI Fillipov.
945. “The Russians were our allies” AI Zuo Yong.
946. “The Russians simply behaved” AI De.
947. “Japanese propaganda had successfully imbued” “The Northern Pacific Flotilla in the Southern Sakhalin Operation,” VIZh, no. 2, Feb. 1980, p. 78.
948. “Go-go-go! I’ll stay and look after the house” AI Fushun.
949. “In view of the current war situation” Matsumoto monograph, op. cit., p. 191.
950. “After the first [Russian] salvo” The Last Battle of Hutou, Beijing 1993, p. 76 (Chinese-language edition).
951. “There were plenty of” ibid., p. 83.
952. “The defence was extraordinarily brave” AI Hongbin.
953. “Most of the local people” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 315.
954. “I saw some men coming down” ibid., p. 384.
955. “When I came back to the depots” ibid., p. 299.
956. “I didn’t get a wink of sleep” ibid., p. 336.
957. “Comrade Lieutenant” ibid., p. 337.
958. “Instead, he spent the next five years” Pu Yi, op. cit., p. 324 et seq.
959. “Give us ten years” AI Li Min.
960. “the Russians had stripped the peasants” AI Li Fenggui.
961. “They were sick—and they had no money